The essential tool for a student

[Mika Nakashima 中島美嘉 - 雪の華]

The product of a favourite Japanese actress and a favourite Japanese stationery brand is...

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A series of irresistable CMs!



Apparently, 相武紗季 has been appointed to endorse パイロット pens. If you're sick of Youtube, here's a list of the CMs.

Now now, yet another reason to stick to Pilot - a brand I'd loyaly stuck with since I first started using pens in Primary 3. Timing also so zun, JUST when I'd upgraded from a Pilot shaker to this and I was considering if I should get myself a Lamy pen as well...

As far as I know, stationery is a big thing to many Asians, particularly with the fairer sex. I will always remember the times my female pals would test numerous pens after school, writing on the provided paper to even on MY HAND! Here in Australia, the Aussies don't go ga-ga over stationery. Besides the fact that the average Australian stationery store sucks in variety, the only people you see at the pens section in Sydney's 紀伊國屋書店 are Asians. Seriously, I have no idea how the Aussies can 靠一只笔闯天下. Most of them don't even have a proper pencil case to begin with! And when I wanted to change my pencil case last semester, I cannot find a decent one. (I refuse to buy any surf brand ones.) Then when I was interning last year, I noticed that almost all my colleagues (ladies alike) lost the habit to buy their own stationery, as the office provides them with default stationery. "What happened to personal preferences?!" Perhaps its a case of stingy civil servants, unwilling to spend additional money. This could be 1 of my many random and awkward questions to my colleagues when I get back. Heh.

Now I have a new mission: To find the very pens that were featured in the CMs in Singapore!